Was Air Liquide hit by ransomware?

Air Liquide was listed by the safepay ransomware operation (South Korea) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the safepay ransomware group?

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Air Liquide

Claimed by Safepay · listed 2 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedAug 26, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Safepay
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: South Korea
Sector: Industrial Gases
Listed on leak site: Aug 26, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Air Liquide operates in South Korea, supplying essential gases and related technologies to major industries. The company has operated in the region for several decades.

Industry: Industrial Gases

Attack summary

Severity: low — The post is a listing/announcement with no technical proof, no data inventory disclosed, and no operational impact stated. The group's statement appears to be a disclaimer about their RaaS operations rather than evidence of a successful attack.

SafePay ransomware group claims to have attacked Air Liquide. The leak post does not specify whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it detail what data is at stake.

low

What the group claims

Air Liquide has operated in South Korea for several decades and supplies essential gases and related technologies to major industries.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

# SafePay ransomware has never provided and does not provide the RaaS
Air Liquide has operated in South Korea for several decades and supplies essential gases and related technologies to major industries, … 
Based in Lallio, near Bergamo in Lombardy, the company traces its origins to 1957, when Santo Gavazzi established a small … 
Headquartered in Albal, Valencia, the family-owned company traces its origins to three generations of livestock farming. What began as a … 
Headquartered in Alfamén, Zaragoza, Spain, the company has been manufacturing metal shelving since 1964 and has become one of Europe's … 
Headquartered in Signa, Florence, Italy, the company was founded in 2006 and has grown into one of Italy's established suppliers … 
Headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the company has served customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware for several decades. Although … 
The firm focuses on practice areas including personal injury, wrongful death, workplace harassment, business litigation, civil settlements, and environmental litigation. … 
Founded in 1999, the company specializes in the design, engineering, and production of air-cooled water chillers, …

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion

Source

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Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 705 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post August 26, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 26, 2026Air Liquide listed by safepayon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by safepay

safepay has been linked to 705 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Industrial Gases sector. Geographically, Air Liquide is reported in South Korea, a country with 48 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by safepay means Air Liquide appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, KrCERT/CC (South Korea), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on safepay's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.